This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant could cleave the bone. This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. Th...
Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.
From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Love is divine only and difficult always.
You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. You loved those white folks that much?Love? she asked. Love?Well, what are you taking care of their dogs for?Do you know why she killed...
Love is never any better than the lover.
Lonely was much better than alone.
It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because...
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
You been gone too long, Sula.Not too long, but maybe too far.
Something that is loved is never lost.
I dream a dream that dreams back at me
How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked.Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [s...
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the o...
We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.
The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than re...